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Yeah, that is how high deductible plans work. But if you are in a car accident and need to be airlifted, have a heart attack, etc etc, it is much better for yo
by clavalle 13y ago
Yeah, that is how high deductible plans work.
But if you are in a car accident and need to be airlifted, have a heart attack, etc etc, it is much better for you to at least have some cap on your out of pocket.
- pseudometa 13y agoTrue.
- briandear 13y agoThen an easier law that even republicans would have supported is to have the government subsidize HDHPs and be done with it. Instead they needed 1200+ pages that the lawmakers didn't even read. Government wasn't after protecting the 'uninsured'-- they wanted to control an industry that makes up 5% of GDP.
- nknighthb 13y agoRepublicans supported the ACA until Obama did. It's based on their own blueprints from the 1990s fight and Massachusetts. And if you're going to whine about the length of the bill, get it right. It's 906 pages with legislative formatting (huge margins, lots of other whitespace). The PDF is trivially googleable.
- clavalle 13y agoI read it. You should too. It is not as long as the page count makes it seem. What industry are you referring to? Healthcare? Or insurance?